[Xen-devel] Ping: [PATCH] x86: re-add stack alignment check

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 15.11.16 at 11:46, <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 15.11.16 at 11:26, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Everything will indeed break if it is off by 8, but everything will also
>> be similarly-broken if it is off by 16 or off by -8.
> 
> Off by -8 will be caught as well. And there's no possible off-by-16,
> as then the calculations will be right again (read: you can freely
> add two longs to struct cpu_info, but you mustn't add just one).

This discussion appears to have stalled, and so far I've seen no
reason to change other than the position of the checks. I'm
hesitant to send out v2 though without having reached agreement
on the other aspects.

Jan


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